![]() The New York Times (i9 MacBook Pro Is Faster After The Thermal Throttle Fix by Apple - YouTube. All iPhone Replacement Batteries Now Available Without Delay - Mac Rumors. Of 911 calls about injuries from walking into glass - San Francisco Chronicle. Gail, the upshot of the $999 iPhone is that you will have more buying options than you did before. In the past, when Apple announced new iPhones, your options were to get the iPhone with the standard-size screen or the one with the bigger screen. With the addition of the $999 iPhone, known as iPhone X, your options will now be to get the normal-size iPhone, the big-screen iPhone, or the iPhone X with some fancy features that you won’t get on the cheaper models. What will you gain? ![]() That depends on your preferences. If you are a gadget enthusiast who needs the latest and greatest cutting-edge technology, the premium iPhone would benefit you. But if you’re just in the market for a phone that is superior to your iPhone 5S in terms of speed, camera performance and so on, you will be happy with a normal iPhone. Hi Evelyn -- while Apple is adding a premium tier to its iPhone family, the iPhone overall isn't getting much more expensive. The base model of the iPhone costs $699, up from the $649 starting price of past iPhones. The big question will be: How good are the normal iPhones compared with the premium one? Will they be so unappealing in comparison that it would be foolish not to get the premium iPhone? I imagine that Apple would want the vast majority of customers to continue buying the $699 iPhone, while the tech enthusiasts gravitate toward the premium one. But we will have to see. There are many differences between the iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X. The iPhone 8 Plus has an LCD screen, and the iPhone X has an OLED display that takes up nearly the entire face of the device by eliminating the borders around the screen. Both the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X have glass bodies, the ability to be charged wirelessly and a dual-lens, depth-sensing camera system. But the main difference is that the iPhone 8 Plus has a home button and a fingerprint sensor for unlocking the device. The iPhone X eliminates the home button and fingerprint sensor and scans your face to unlock the device. Indeed, the new Samsung phones, the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy Note 8, have edge-to-edge displays using OLED technology. By contrast, Apple’s iPhone 8 and 8 Plus still have bezels, or borders, and use LCD technology; only the iPhone X has the edge-to-edge OLED screen. It may come down to supply constraints. Analysts say Samsung manufactures the vast majority (more than 90 percent) of OLED displays. There is also bad blood between the two companies: They have fought each other over copyright infringement. So catching up with Samsung’s screen technology is proving difficult for Apple. No matter how you pay for an iPhone — buying it outright for full price or choosing an installment plan in which you spread out the cost in monthly payments — you will end up paying the full price of it. There are no interest fees incurred for paying through an installment plan, so that is a fine option if you don’t have $700 to $1,000 to burn on a new iPhone right away. If you like to upgrade every year, there are annual upgrade installment plans that let you trade in your phone for a new phone each year. The issue with that is you are essentially leasing the phone like you would a car; you get on a constant treadmill of buying phones. As for me, I’m an advocate of buying your smartphone outright and holding onto it for as long as you can. I will reserve judgment of the cameras until after I have reviewed the new iPhones. However, I will point out that the iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X have a new feature called Portrait Lighting. It uses a dual-lens camera system and an image-signal processor to analyze a scene and blur out the background and focus on the subject, a DSLR-like effect. The iPhone 7 Plus had Portrait mode, which was the same effect, but Portrait Lighting is supposed to do a better job at separating subjects from the background because the software maps out your face. As for the resolution, the new iPhones have 12-megapixel sensors, the same as the last iPhones. There's a thriving market for unofficial, aftermarket iPhone parts, and in China, there are entire massive factories that are dedicated to producing these components for repair shops unable to get ahold of parts that have been produced by Apple. The entire Apple device repair ecosystem is fascinating, complex, and oftentimes confusing to consumers given the disconnect between Apple, Apple Authorized Service Providers, third-party factories, and independent repair shops, so we thought we'd delve into the complicated world of Apple repairs.
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